US6625441B1 - Telephony system with a key for accessing multiple answering machines or mailboxes - Google Patents
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- H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
- H04M1/725—Cordless telephones
- H04M1/72502—Cordless telephones with one base station connected to a single line
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- H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
- H04M1/64—Automatic arrangements for answering calls; Automatic arrangements for recording messages for absent subscribers; Arrangements for recording conversations
- H04M1/65—Recording arrangements for recording a message from the calling party
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- H04M3/42—Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers
- H04M3/50—Centralised arrangements for answering calls; Centralised arrangements for recording messages for absent or busy subscribers ; Centralised arrangements for recording messages
- H04M3/53—Centralised arrangements for recording incoming messages, i.e. mailbox systems
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- the present invention relates to a telephony system comprising:
- the invention also relates to a telephone and a handset suitable for such a system.
- Telephone systems ever more often include telephone answering machines offering more or less the function of voice mailbox.
- a problem posed with this type of system is that the user is to consult all the answering machines he has at his disposal, which may be tiresome and imply different procedures he has to remember.
- the present invention proposes a system of the type defined in the opening paragraph in which means are provided for facilitating the user's access to his telephone answering machines.
- such a telephone is characterized in that the handset includes a control means for triggering the access to at least one of the telephone answering machines when it is activated.
- the idea of the invention is to facilitate the use of the system by enabling a user to consult his telephone answering machines by direct commands formed, for example, by a single depression of a key.
- FIG. 1 shows a system in accordance with the invention
- FIG. 2 shows an explanatory diagram of the operation of the system of the invention.
- a telephone 1 satisfying the DECT standards forms the system that is represented.
- ETSI 300 175-5 part 5: “Network layer”, one will find various data relating to this type of telephone.
- Reference 2 shows the base station BS to which may be connected by radio a plurality of handsets, in this example two handsets HS 1 and HS 2 .
- This base station 2 includes, inter alia, a line circuit 10 that enables it to be connected to a switching exchange 3 that gives access to the switched network via a telephone line 12 , and a radio circuit 14 that authorizes the dialogue with the various handsets HS 1 , HS 2 by transmitting and receiving waves via an antenna 16 .
- a signal-processing element 15 is provided formed around a signal processor DSP that notably processes voice signals. All the elements of the base station are managed by a microprocessor assembly 20 . This element is formed, notably in usual manner, by a random access memory 24 , a read-only memory 26 containing the instructions for operation of the telephone and a management processor 29 .
- This telephone also includes a telephone answering machine, in essence, formed by a memory 30 of the type known by the name of flash memory.
- This memory is thus intended to contain the messages that are necessary for the answering function.
- This function thus also implies the function of voice mailbox.
- the handset HS 3 is located in a radio propagation area 50 that enables it to be connected direct to the switched network via the switching exchange 3 . But this handset may also be connected to the said base station.
- this handset may also be connected to the said base station.
- DECT standards ETS 300 824 mentioning the definition of CAP (Access Profile) which makes this service possible.
- the exchange 3 which belongs to this type of provider, includes such a machine carrying reference 55 .
- a control 56 is provided on the handsets. This is only shown for the handset HS 3 , the other handsets may also have this control.
- the status of the handsets HS 1 and HS 2 is different from that of the handset HS 3 . If one depresses the button for one second, access will also be obtained to this voice mailbox 55 . But, if the button is depressed longer, access will be obtained to the voice mailbox contained in the base station 2 .
- FIG. 2 explains the operation of the system of the invention.
- Box K 1 in this Figure relates to the operation of the handset HS 1 , for example.
- the depression of the key is processed by the MMI layer and establishes through various layers of protocol a link by launching the procedure ⁇ CC_SETUP ⁇ such as described in the standard DECT ETS 300 17 5 -5, paragraph 9.3.
- ⁇ CC_SETUP ⁇ such as described in the standard DECT ETS 300 17 5 -5, paragraph 9.3.
- a data ⁇ inf 1 >> or ⁇ inf 2 >> which indicates the work to be carried out by the base station BS, that is to say, if one is to be connected to the local voice mailbox TAM or to the voice mailbox 55 of the public switching center CAS.
- Box K 2 relates to the base station 2 receiving this ⁇ CC 13 SETUP ⁇ and examines the message. This is thus either a connection to the local voice mailbox that is effected, or a connection to the remote voice mailbox of the public network (box K 3 ).
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